Documentation: git-add -- do not say "cache", add examples.
Its use of git-ls-files --others is very nice, but sometimes gives surprising results, so we'd better talk about it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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NAME
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git-add - Add files to the cache.
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git-add - Add files to the index file.
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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DESCRIPTION
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A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the cache for people used
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to do "cvs add".
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A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
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for people used to do "cvs add".
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OPTIONS
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-------
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<file>...::
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Files to add to the cache.
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Files to add to the index.
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-n::
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Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
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Be verbose.
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DISCUSSION
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The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files`
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command to list files that are not registerd in the index and
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are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or
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`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things:
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. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and
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the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories;
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. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not
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run `git-update-index` on that path.
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EXAMPLES
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--------
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git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
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Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under
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`Documentation` directory and its subdirectories.
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+
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Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
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example; this lets the command to include the files from
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subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
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git-add git-*.sh::
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Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index.
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Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
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(i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
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add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index.
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Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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